Thursday, January 8, 2026 Virtual Conference

Peter Palmér, LPPDE and Juha Tammi, Lean Association of Finland - Welcome and Instructions

Peter and Juha represent the two organization who organize these virtual online events and will moderate the Virtual Summit.

Mirette Kangas, Transformation Leader and Facilitator with Hands-On Execution – The Art of the Beginning & Agile Culture in Leadership: Accelerating Learning and Impact

We believe exceptional outcomes are achievable when teams act with purpose, learn quickly, and possess both the authority and capability to make decisions. In my presentation, Mirette will share her experiences and insights on how adopting an agile mindset and culture can enhance the effectiveness and quality of a leader's work, as well as the sources of rapid learning.

This is a brand-new presentation, based on the theme "The Art of the Beginning“.

Mirette has previously spoken about: “It´s an ultramarathon. 10 key lessons learned about lean-agile transformation as a change leader” and “Transformation Superpowers”.

Mirette Kangas is a recognized leader, advisor, and pioneer in Lean-Agile culture in Finland. Her work has inspired numerous companies across various industries to adopt an agile corporate culture, embrace business agility, and thrive in fast-paced, complex, creative, and innovative environments.

Mirette has served as the Director of Business Excellence at Elisa, the Finnish market leader in telecommunications and digital services. Before that, she was responsible for KONE's global Lean and Agile operating model, a company recognized as a global leader in the elevator and escalator industry. Additionally, she played a pivotal role in developing and promoting an agile culture at Yle, the Finnish National Broadcasting Company, for 15 years. Mirette is also a co-founder of Yle Areena, Finland's leading streaming media service. Her experience includes serving as a production director at Sanoma Group, an innovative and agile learning and media company, and leading numerous projects for Nokia, a global leader in mobile devices and networks at that time.

Staffan Nöteberg, Lean Agile Consultant and author at Rekursiv – Mastering the Beginning: From Feature Factory to Guiding Star OKRs in Complexity

In complex product development environments, the starting point is critical. Do we begin with a rigid plan ("position") or an adaptive strategy ("direction")? Building on the principle that companies function more like ant colonies than machines, we explore how traditional goal-setting can lock us onto the wrong track from day one. This session introduces Guiding Star OKRs—a method for integrating strategy directly into daily work. Discover how to create an organization that is both persistent and adaptive by calibrating the future instead of grading the past.

Staffan Nöteberg is a bestseller author of The Pomodoro Technique Illustrated, Monotasking, Regular Expressions Machinery, and Guiding Star OKRs, with hundreds of thousands of copies sold. With extensive experience in organizational development within agile contexts, he has guided some of Sweden's largest companies through their agile transformations. Staffan also co-hosts the “Komplexitetspodden” (The Complexity Podcast) alongside Ola Ellnestam.

Christer Lundh, Founder and President at AUFERO – Disrupting Your Industry Through Knowledge-Based Starts

The Art of the Beginning: Unlocking 10x advantages in knowledge-based development disrupting your industry through knowledge-based starts. In this presentation Christer shares his deep knowledge and experience about how to manage start-ups and transformation of existing R&D organizations based on theories of Don Reinertsen about flow, lowered transaction costs as enablers for short iterations / learning cycles.

The presentation has four main parts:

1. Knowledge-Based Development (KBD), thrives on early knowledge generation.
2. The “beginning” isn’t just ideation—it’s designing processes for rapid feedback
   from Day 1.
3. Poor starts lead to compounded waste downstream; artful beginnings yield 10x speed, cost savings, and innovation.
4. Theme Tie-in: Like a master painter’s first strokes, early decisions in KBD shape the masterpiece.

Christer Lundh is president of AUFERO, a consultant firm that helps senior leaders and development teams to benefit from small low-cost iterations that remove a lot of risk. Christer has built his expertise from extensive practice. He provides transformations, strategic projects and personal advice, within product flow management, advisor on leadership, and interim senior manager. He is a board member at LPPDE.org and is a passionate leader who creates flow of new products and innovations together with customers.

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By Juha Tammi & Peter Palmér

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